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Floor Speech

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Mr. THUNE. The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Arkansas (Mr. Boozman), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from Alabama (Mrs. Britt), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd), the Senator from Louisiana (Mr. Cassidy), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cornyn), the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Cramer), the Senator from Texas (Mr. Cruz), and the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Budd) would have voted ``nay''.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Iowa (Ms. Ernst), the Senator from Nebraska (Mrs. Fischer), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Graham), the Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Hagerty), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Hawley), the Senator from Mississippi (Mrs. Hyde-Smith), the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Johnson), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis), the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall), and the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Moran).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Marshall) would have voted ``nay''.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Paul), the Senator from Idaho (Mr. Risch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Romney), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Rubio), the Senator from Missouri (Mr. Schmitt), the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott), the Senator from South Carolina (Mr. Scott), the Senator from Alaska (Mr. Sullivan), the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Tuberville), and the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance).

Further, if present and voting: the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Vance) would have voted ``nay'' and the Senator from Florida (Mr. Scott) would have voted ``nay''.

The result was announced--yeas 50, nays 11, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 347 Ex.] YEAS--50 Baldwin Bennet Blumenthal Booker Brown Butler Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cortez Masto Duckworth Durbin Gillibrand Grassley Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kaine Kelly Klobuchar Lujan Manchin Markey Menendez Merkley Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Reed Rosen Rounds Sanders Schatz Schumer Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Tester Tillis Van Hollen Warner Warnock Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--11 Cotton Crapo Hoeven Kennedy Lankford McConnell Mullin Ricketts Thune Wicker Young NOT VOTING--39 Barrasso Blackburn Boozman Braun Britt Budd Cassidy Cornyn Cramer Cruz Daines Ernst Fetterman Fischer Graham Hagerty Hawley Hickenlooper Hyde-Smith Johnson King Lee Lummis Marshall Moran Padilla Paul Peters Risch Romney Rubio Schmitt Scott (FL) Scott (SC) Sullivan Tuberville Vance Warren Welch

The nomination was confirmed.

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